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[Mindy D]

I left a couple things off my hurricane readiness list.

Keep an axe in your attic. Keep two flashlights right inside the entrance up there with new batteries in them. If you need a step stool to get up there. Leave the step stool right under the entryway to the attic. I thought of this after watching the people in New Orleans after Katrina.  I have not actually done this in some years. We are so far inland I don’t think about it enough. My house is completely surrounded by deep water lakes. I’ve got to remember. 

We have in inflatable boat we won at a drawing. I’ve been meaning to stick that thing up there for years. It’s still in the box and I have no idea how it blows up. If I ever get around to this, I guess I’ll need oars to use with it. 

[fthunt]

My husband won an inflatable boat - LOL - once upon a time.  Big black thing and it became the family joke.  You'll never get those blown up without a gas station tire machine and it probably would take you 6 months  to fill it.  As you fill one end - the other end is leaking.  Go to Plan 2 if you have one.

[Mindy D]

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@fthunt wrote:

My husband won an inflatable boat - LOL - once upon a time.  Big black thing and it became the family joke.  You'll never get those blown up without a gas station tire machine and it probably would take you 6 months  to fill it.  As you fill one end - the other end is leaking.  Go to Plan 2 if you have one.

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Hi fthunt, the boat is not really much of a plan. I’ve also seen all the news reports showing debris in the water that would puncture a boat. 

[Lucky Charm]

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@Mindy D wrote:

I left a couple things off my hurricane readiness list.

Keep an axe in your attic. Keep two flashlights right inside the entrance up there with new batteries in them. If you need a step stool to get up there. Leave the step stool right under the entryway to the attic. I thought of this after watching the people in New Orleans after Katrina.  I have not actually done this in some years. We are so far inland I don’t think about it enough. My house is completely surrounded by deep water lakes. I’ve got to remember. 

We have in inflatable boat we won at a drawing. I’ve been meaning to stick that thing up there for years. It’s still in the box and I have no idea how it blows up. If I ever get around to this, I guess I’ll need oars to use with it. 

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@Mindy D  Are you in that high risk of an area, an if so, do you have some other place to go besides staying home?

[Mindy D]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

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@Mindy D wrote:

I left a couple things off my hurricane readiness list.

Keep an axe in your attic. Keep two flashlights right inside the entrance up there with new batteries in them. If you need a step stool to get up there. Leave the step stool right under the entryway to the attic. I thought of this after watching the people in New Orleans after Katrina.  I have not actually done this in some years. We are so far inland I don’t think about it enough. My house is completely surrounded by deep water lakes. I’ve got to remember. 

We have in inflatable boat we won at a drawing. I’ve been meaning to stick that thing up there for years. It’s still in the box and I have no idea how it blows up. If I ever get around to this, I guess I’ll need oars to use with it. 

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@Mindy D  Are you in that high risk of an area, an if so, do you have some other place to go besides staying home?

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No, we are nowhere near the ocean and in zero chance of storm surge. We are twenty miles inland. We are not near any evacuation zone. We also have huge water pumps in our area that our local taxpayers pay extra for. These pumps pull out any waters to prevent flooding. I am in what used to be a part of the Everglades. That’s the reason for the huge water pumps.  The only reason I think about this is in watching the people in Houston that were not in an evacuation zone for flooding either. They were standing on their roofs to get rescued when their emergency water management was forced to open flood gates in their neighborhoods because of a hurricane coming into a different location. I don’t know exactly why. I also remember the people needing to get to their roofs to get help after Katrina. Yesterday morning, I watched an interview on CNN with a guy from Abaco that had water rise above 21 feet. This was storm surge water. He needed to escape through his roof but he couldn’t because he had nothing up there to cut through the roof. He somehow managed to get out. His wife died in this incident. My home is surrounded by large lakes. Florida has approximately 30,000 lakes. No one knows what would happen if a Cat 5 hurricane were to remain stationary over my area. Would lake water be blown into my streets or could continued heavy rains cause the lakes to rise and flood? Being able to escape via the attic and roof could be something that might happen, so why not be prepared for this. 

[MalteseMomma]

Prayers for all in harms way.......................Stay Safe  <3

[ROMARY]

Gee, I'm now wondering if there's any such thing as an attic skylight which can be opened from the inside, maybe by a crank handle device of some sort.

Just in case someone is caught in the attic space for whatever reason ( rapid flooding, mudslide, fire, etc.) and needs to get out in a hurry. 

Just a thought.

Wishing everyone safety.